FG Replaces Ailing Gen. Lagbaja, General Oluyode Appointed Acting COAS

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ABUJA– President Bola Tinubu yesterday, named Major General Olufemi Oluyede as acting Chief of Army Staff (COAS). General Oluyode replaces General Taireed Lagbaja, who is on sick leave in far away UK. This development was made known by by Bayo Onanuga, the president’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, in a statement obtainedbyCrimeWorldmagazineonline. According to the statement, “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, has appointed Major General Olufemi Olatubosun Oluyede as the acting Chief of Army Staff (COAS).

“Oluyede is expected to act in the capacity pending the return of the ailing Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja. Until his appointment, Oluyede served as the 56th Commander of the elite Infantry Corps of the Nigerian Army, based in Jaji, Kaduna.”

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